From: Miss Islington (bot) <31488909+miss-islington@users.noreply.github.com> Date: Sun, 21 Jul 2024 06:00:20 +0000 (+0200) Subject: [3.12] gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (GH-122075) (#122077) X-Git-Tag: v3.12.5~71 X-Git-Url: http://git.ipfire.org/gitweb.cgi?a=commitdiff_plain;h=5f46a726ea8089da39bb021a4f90636c51f9b40b;p=thirdparty%2FPython%2Fcpython.git [3.12] gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (GH-122075) (#122077) gh-121977: Add tips for handling unhashable data (GH-122075) (cherry picked from commit ebc18abbf34ff248764bda1a02db7f1c783b71e3) Co-authored-by: Raymond Hettinger --- diff --git a/Doc/library/statistics.rst b/Doc/library/statistics.rst index 0e44d9d92227..ce1b8a112e85 100644 --- a/Doc/library/statistics.rst +++ b/Doc/library/statistics.rst @@ -408,6 +408,12 @@ However, for reading convenience, most of the examples show sorted sequences. >>> mode(["red", "blue", "blue", "red", "green", "red", "red"]) 'red' + Only hashable inputs are supported. To handle type :class:`set`, + consider casting to :class:`frozenset`. To handle type :class:`list`, + consider casting to :class:`tuple`. For mixed or nested inputs, consider + using this slower quadratic algorithm that only depends on equality tests: + ``max(data, key=data.count)``. + .. versionchanged:: 3.8 Now handles multimodal datasets by returning the first mode encountered. Formerly, it raised :exc:`StatisticsError` when more than one mode was